Red Sorghum By Mo Yan Is On Pre Order At Infibeam
Red Sorghum is an engrossing story of the survival of Shandong family in 20th century rural China set against the backdrop of War of Resistance against Japanese aggression.
Online, November 5, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The story of the novel Red Sorghum is narrated by the Grandson of the protagonist, Commander Yu who leads a group of villagers in preparing them for the advancing Japanese bother. Commander Yu sends his 14 year old young son to go home to get some food for all his men. Meanwhile, Yu's wife is returning back from the Sorghum fields with food but is brutally end by the startling firing from the Japanese men.
Her end becomes a symbol and a common thread in the story for linking the past & the present. It is a non-chronological novel narrated mainly in flashbacks. The narrator tells the story going back and forth with his family's history and recording the Japanese invasion war's progress.
Mo Yan has created a world that is a fine blend between fantasy and reality with historical and social perspectives of 20th Century China. It is a saga of human greed and corruption and the plight of China in the 1930's.
The novel graphically narrates the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China during the period of war. The work gives a deep insight into the Chinese culture and life style of that war period. There is constant bloodshed in the novel with in detail narration about the Japanese invaders, bandits, warlords and the feral dogs yet the theme of love (for the country, countrymen, life, family, village) is very much present at the center of the story.
Read on this classic tale of Shandong family with Mo Yan's brilliant verbal imagery of beautiful Chinese landscapes, culture and tradition. The book is on pre-order at infibeam.com
http://www.infibeam.com/Books/red-sorghum-mo-yan/9780099451679.html
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About the Author:
Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize winner for Literature is a well known Chinese novelist born in 1955 and grew up in Gaomi, north-eastern China. His real name is Guan Moye and he began by writing short stories in journal in 1981 while he was working for People Liberation Army. He took up Mo Yan as his pen name, which literary means don't speak in Chinese, as a way to express the subject matter of his writings that primarily deal with the Chinese political history. He has written several novels and short stories from which his novel Red Sorghum was adapted into an award winning movie. He is currently the vice-chairman of the Official China Writer's Association.